There are essential components of the International Baccalaureate that will be covered in this workshop.

Some resources are available here for your reference.

IB mission statement

The International Baccalaureate aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.

To this end the organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.

These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.


Shared features across the programmes

q Breadth, depth and balance

q More than one language

q Local, national and international content

q Transdisciplinary / individual collaborative inquiry and research

q Diversity, flexibility of pedagogy

q Bound together by the Learner Profile

q Focus on learners constructing meaning

q At the end of each programme, there is a culminating engagement





Assessment across the programmes